On Friday 28 July 2006 16:16, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Friday 28 July 2006 04:13, Hans de Goede wrote:
> I keep hearing this argument, that the packages for the involved drivers
> can be made to conflict with the update. Which in essence will deprive
> all but the most technical of our users from security updates. So this
> is a moot argument. ? Deprive all but the most technical of our users
> from security updates is almost as bad as completly breaking their
> system.
So you'd rather we hold the update for EVERYBODY so that EVERYBODY gets
denied the update? yeah, that's progress...
If I extend your idea, FC-5 should exactly the same as FC-devel. A major
release of FC should avoid breaking things. The ABI-breaking updates should
be reserved for FC-devel and next major release (in that case FC-6).